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12-28-2017, 03:56 PM
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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Arghhhh...I've been diagnosed with AAADD
Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. –
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye they need to be watered.
I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.
I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.
So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.
Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
the car isn't washed,
the bills aren't paid,
there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,
the flowers don't have enough water,
there is still only one check in my check book,
I can't find the remote,
I can't find my glasses,
and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.
I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.
Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!
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12-28-2017, 04:11 PM
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Someone is always copying my style! .......
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12-28-2017, 04:40 PM
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Wow now I see that I can use this with the DW I have had this problem for the past 60 years............ The car last got washed over a year ago............... That's me !!!!!!!!!!
By the way what were we talking about ??
Lets go camping............................
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12-28-2017, 04:46 PM
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Goes right with my CRS disease.
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12-28-2017, 04:53 PM
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Hmmm CRS, dang I used to remember what that was...
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12-28-2017, 05:49 PM
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Running water in the driveway
I have to ask, out of all that I did not see where you shut the water off in the driveway. :-). it isn't still running is it? :-)
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12-28-2017, 05:58 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wildcatter
I have to ask, out of all that I did not see where you shut the water off in the driveway. :-). it isn't still running is it? :-)
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If he was my neighbor, we would have a nice ice rink by now!
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12-28-2017, 06:14 PM
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Now that it's leagal in Oregon, are you sure it's not - W. A. A. D. D.,
Weed Activated Attention Deficit Disorder!
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12-28-2017, 06:24 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SailorSam20500
If he was my neighbor, we would have a nice ice rink by now!
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Anyone up for a game of hockey.
Me too, it was -8 in the morning in Omaha yesterday, little warmer today but not by much.
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12-28-2017, 06:25 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilG
Now that it's leagal in Oregon, are you sure it's not - W. A. A. D. D.,
Weed Activated Attention Deficit Disorder!
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Since you brought it up - I found out why the stock prices of the tech companies are declining... Reported on the news today: a lot of their executives are quitting to open up pot related businesses now that California has legalized it...
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Al
I am starting to think, that I will never be old enough--------to know better.
Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist
S.E. Mich. Flagstaff 26FKWS / 2022 F-150 3.5 EcoBoost SCrew Propride
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12-28-2017, 06:53 PM
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Oregon- if you can remember all those things in that order,I don't believe you have A.A.A.D.D.
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12-28-2017, 07:57 PM
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A. A. A. D. D.
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12-28-2017, 11:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wobbles
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I use to think of being a greeter at Walmart when I retired. I retired almost 4 years ago and realized I retired in time. I don’t have time to have a job. I’m too busy doing what I want to do, camping mostly.
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12-29-2017, 12:02 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wobbles
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Quote:
Originally Posted by djeirlessr
I use to think of being a greeter at Walmart when I retired. I retired almost 4 years ago and realized I retired in time. I don’t have time to have a job. I’m too busy doing what I want to do, camping mostly.
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Well, personally, I LOVE work.
I can sit and watch it for HOURS!
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01-18-2018, 08:58 PM
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[QUOTE=Oregon;1695636]Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. –
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:........
ALL that sounds like a "normal" day for me during the winter months. Didn't consider it to be an affliction of some sort. Although now that you mention it, the wife does seem to be a bit concerned each day because I didn't accomplish that simple list of domestic chores she left for me to do, it's only a couple weeks old.
And of course at the last FROG rally my so called "friends" made a special effort to remind me how ancient I was becoming. I'm am the second oldest in the group and for some reason that deserved special attention. What are friends for, eh!
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01-18-2018, 09:01 PM
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You looked to be in better shape than most. LOL...
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01-19-2018, 01:06 PM
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I'm a grown man and do not need to be reminded every 6 months.
She: What are you going to do today?
He: Nothing.
She: But that's what you did all day yesterday
He: Yeah, but I'm not done yet.
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01-19-2018, 01:09 PM
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Look, I'm going tell you people something. I actually believe that if we .......
Hey! Y'all wanna go ride bikes?
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